# Paid Member, Charter Memberships and Other Paid Participations, Discourse Era **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 3, 2021, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-member-charter-memberships-and-other-paid-participations-discourse-era/941259 "2021-05-03T02:29:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-member-charter-memberships-and-other-paid-participations-discourse-era/941259/1 "2021-05-03T02:29:38Z")
I have on my calendar to check & make sure my paid membership is kept intact and to retain my Charter Member status and all that. Went to my Profile. Don’t see anything about paid stuff or renewals or whatnot. I’m still up for making payments to help keep the community afloat. We still doing this stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-member-charter-memberships-and-other-paid-participations-discourse-era/941259/2 "2021-05-03T02:36:03Z")
> [@How to Renew My Subscription?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-renew-my-subscription/912862): > > Finally on the new site, logged in. How do I renew my subscription? Email from SDMB (today) says do it here [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/payments.php](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/payments.php) but that takes me to “OOPS! That page doesn’t exist.” Help! I say, Help! TLDR version: They don’t have a way to take our money yet or any time soon but whatever membership you had will continue for now without you needing to pay, ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-member-charter-memberships-and-other-paid-participations-discourse-era/941259/3 "2021-05-03T02:39:34Z")
Can confirm. Also, there is once again work being done on making that happen. But i wouldn’t hold my breath. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-member-charter-memberships-and-other-paid-participations-discourse-era/941259/4 "2021-05-03T02:59:48Z")
I actually want to give you my money. 😱 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-member-charter-memberships-and-other-paid-participations-discourse-era/941259/5 "2021-05-03T03:30:52Z")
Haha me too. It’s been worrying me. My date for payment has come and gone and I feel like Coyote who has gone past the edge of the cliff and is waiting to fall… ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-member-charter-memberships-and-other-paid-participations-discourse-era/941259/6 "2021-05-03T04:29:38Z")
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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-member-charter-memberships-and-other-paid-participations-discourse-era/941259/7 "2021-05-03T04:30:38Z")
Since there is already an existing thread on this, I’ll close this thread and direct others to the thread linked to by @Atamasama.